Haryana plans new industrial town at Manesar-Bawal

The state government on Thursday made a provision for an industrial township in the newly-drafted development plan for Manesar-Bawal investment region (MBIR) during the next 23 years.

TNN | Apr 19, 2013, 05.04 AM IST

CHANDIGARH: To boost industrialization in NCR area falling in Haryana, the state government on Thursday made a provision for an industrial township in the newly-drafted development plan for Manesar-Bawal investment region (MBIR) during the next 23 years.

A state-level committee of town and country planning department on Thursday approved the draft development plan, which said that the industrial township would be developed in the first phase of the plan.

The township would be developed in 400 sq km area in Rewari district. Director of town and country planning, Anurag Rastogi, said that Manesar is a fast growing industrial town of Gurgaon district while Bawal is a municipality of neighbouring Rewari district. The area of MBIR would include existing Bawal industrial town and the stretch along NH-8 up to Rajasthan border.

The plan has been prepared for a projected population of 32 lakh with urbanisable area of 40,232 hectares.

In the first phase, from the year 2011-21, around 8,800 hectares land would be developed whereas about 15,000 hectares would be developed during the second phase up to 2031. The third phase of MBIR would be completed by 2039, he said.

In the MBIR, about 11,189 hectares has been earmarked for residential purposes, 1,120 hectares for commercial purposes, 6,771 for industrial, 4,254 for transport and communication, 441 for public utilities, 892 for public and semi-public purposes, 13,005 for open spaces and recreation, 424 for rivers and water bodies and 2,136 for natural zone.

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